Azure Application Insights
Enable full observability for your applications and infrastructure.
Overview
Azure Application Insights, a feature of Azure Monitor, is a comprehensive APM service for monitoring live web applications. It automatically detects performance anomalies and includes powerful analytics tools to help you diagnose issues. Its distributed tracing capabilities allow you to track requests and dependencies across multiple components, whether they are running on Azure or elsewhere.
✨ Key Features
- Application Map for visualizing dependencies
- Distributed tracing across services
- Live Metrics Stream
- Request and performance monitoring
- Exception and failure analysis
- Integration with Visual Studio and Azure DevOps
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Deep integration with the Azure and .NET ecosystems
- Powerful analytics with Application Insights Analytics query language
- Tight integration with developer tools like Visual Studio
Unique Value: Offers a deeply integrated and developer-friendly APM experience for teams building and running applications on Microsoft Azure.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Diagnosing slow response times in a web app hosted on Azure App Service
- Tracing a transaction from a mobile app through backend APIs to a database
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Organizations with no footprint in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem
- Teams that require a solution completely independent of a major cloud provider
🏆 Alternatives
Provides a seamless workflow for .NET developers and Azure users that third-party tools cannot match, but is less focused on multi-cloud environments.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Azure Professional Direct/Premier Support tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
Free tier: 5 GB of data ingestion per month
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